It is the same here, and I am in the South. There are so many inter-racial couples around military bases that it is common. Most of the kids all have friends whose parents are from different races.


>>She - Nina - looks like an advertisement for humans.
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>>>They live in Stafford, VA ( near Quantico ) so with the number of military in the area multi-racial kids are not at all rare and while high school is as cliquish as ever it isn't more about race than any of the other stuff.
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>>>It is interesting to watch the world she is growing up in vs the one I grew up in. ( the first black person I ever talked to was my freshman year in college - she was Hailee Selassie's niece )
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>>FWIW, I noted that when my kids were in high school a few years back, the kids didn't even notice the inter-racial couples. They were just couples.
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>>Maybe that's a function of the community I live in, but I also think many of the under-30 set really see race differently than we do.
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>>Tamar
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>I agree. This has changed a great deal and for the better. You can see it in TV shows, where a couple's being interracial isn't even part of the story line or commented on by anyone, unless in the same context you'd comment on a difference in height or taste in music.